Doreus v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “It’s a little glass test vial,” Ellerbee testified; "[y]ou break off a piece of the evidence [and] place it in there. You crack the vial and if it is cocaine base, it will turn blue.” 5 . Testifying in her defense of misidentification, Bryant acknowledged that she had lived in the immediate area for many years. 6 . Although Williams disassociated himself from Bryant's defense, even accusing her of having tried to solicit drugs from him, he would scarcely have put himself in her company by noting (especially out of the jury's presence, where the discussion of admissibility took place) that he joined in her objection to the DEA-7 report. 7 . The Doreus court, in rejecting the conclusion "that based on the circumstantial evidence alone, [i.e., without consideration of the DEA-7 report], reasonable jurors would have found the requisite intent for entry of judgment on the lesser-included attempt offense,” stressed, inter alia, the ambiguous nature of the "hand-to-hand” transaction the officer had observed (but was not a party to), noting his "limited”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. United States

2. “The DEA-7 report was offered as proof that what appellant possessed was marijuana. . . . If the case had been charged and tried for attempted possession, the DEA-7 report similarly would prove that what appellant intended to possess was a controlled substance, marijuana.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Washington v. United States

3. “to achieve verisimilitude, someone trying to defraud would-be buyers of cocaine would have every incentive to mimic the behavior of a dealer in the genuine article.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Washington v. United States